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outperforming

outperforming is the present participle and gerund of outperform.

Meaning of outperform

Verb

outperform (third-person singular simple present outperforms, present participle outperforming, simple past and past participle outperformed)

  1. (transitive) To perform better than something or someone.
    • The strategy depends on an ability to outperform the market consistently, which many economists regard as virtually impossible.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN

Questions about outperforming

What is outperforming the present participle and gerund of?
Outperforming is the present participle and gerund of outperform.

Words near outperforming in the dictionary

  1. outperform
  2. outperformance
  3. outperformed
  4. outperformer
  5. outperformers
  6. outperforming
  7. outperforms
  8. outphotograph
  9. outphotographed
  10. outphotographing
  11. outphotographs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outperforming (page history and authors); outperform (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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